Industrialism Social Divide Quotes

“Townspeople themselves were eager for change and experiment. From their point of view, Catholicism was tied in with customs and festivals that made sense in a farming community. People in towns and cities needed to have their industries work without being interrupted by all the feast days of the Catholic faith.”
― Michael Mullett, The Catholic Reformation

“P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty”
― Ivan Illich